From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 29 8:53:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kci.kciLink.com (kci.kciLink.com [204.117.82.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3ED637B698; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:53:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kciLink.com [208.184.13.195]) by kci.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2153AC9A4; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:53:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [208.184.13.196]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DC4A2E443; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:53:33 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eATGrXV50668; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:53:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14885.13453.374790.421275@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:53:33 -0500 To: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-ports@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: pkg_version In-Reply-To: <14885.12483.338680.900539@i30nb2.ira.uka.de> References: <7799D023E51ED311BFB50008C75DD7B402881AEC@uschiexc05.kweb.us.kpmg.com> <14885.12483.338680.900539@i30nb2.ira.uka.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.86 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "ES" == Espen Skoglund writes: ES> Yes. Package upgrading should really be a bit cleaner. What I ES> usually end up doing is to move the +REQUIRED_BY file away from the ES> /var/db/pkg directory, delete the port, reinstall it, and move the ES> +REQUIRED_BY file into /var/db/pkg directory again. You also need to go back to all packages listed in +REQUIRED_BY and update the dependency in +CONTENTS if the upgraded package version number changes. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message